"We once burned in the sky," She said as she craned her head to look out the window. Her face burnt and pale, "I could fly with my wings, and he could use his Quirk to fly with the wind." She spread her arms out wide and smiled with this bright and beautiful smile she always had when she talked about my Dad.

"Does Akuto know who Daddy is?" I asked her and her eyes grew dark and grim. A scowl on her face.

"Never bring up your Dad to Akuto," She hissed, "He is a bastard... a real Villain... no matter what happens, never let him know." There was this small look in her eyes that day, a look saying that he already knew who my Dad was, and that scared her a lot it seemed.

"When is Daddy going to come and get us?" I asked her after that. It was the first, and only time I remember her hitting me. A swift smack across the face that made me cry and not stop for an hour.

"I'm sorry," She whispered as she held me, "I'm so sorry... but Daddy isn't coming..." She cried more than I did, knowing things I didn't. "Daddy doesn't know where we are."

"Yes he does," I told her, "He'll be here. Because you said that he's always there. Whether you want him to be or not!" She laughed and held me longer... and though I tried to ask more and more, she ignored every single question.

"Nana," She whispered, rubbing my shoulder, "Wake up... You have to wake up now, Nana."

"Nana," A calm and cool voice said, as my eyes flickered open. Slowly I looked about, staring at the wall that was nothing like the Common Area. Instead, it was brown and dug in, and the voice was that of someone I had known, their touch cool on my shoulder. "You're awake. That's good." His grey and blue eyes didn't startle me the way I thought they would, the dream of before a simple and easy-going one, instead of the usual nightmare.

"W-Where am... I?" I asked and sat up, looking around his room a bit.

"My room, you fell asleep in the Common Area mumbled and shaking through a nightmare," Todoroki said as he stood beside me, "Your room was locked, so I brought you to my room."

"T-Thank you..." I said quietly, wondering where this comforting cold was coming from. It reminded me... of that small room, through all of this, I strangely missed it and how the coldness of it could make me sleep so soundly. "W-Where's my box?"

"You almost dropped it while I carried you here," He said and turned around to get it, "I wasn't sure if it was breakable or not so I put it on my desk." He picked it up and handed it back to me as I swung my feet off his bed and onto the floor. "What is it?"

"A hairpiece..." I told him a bit hesitant, "O-One my Mom gave to me... they found it after what happened."

"You should wear it," He said and I shook my head. Honestly, I did think about wearing it when I was little, and a bit last night... but I didn't know if I could... my Mom was a grand person, a real hero to so many people. How could I wear something when I barely amounted to one person? "Here." He sat beside me and opened the box to show off the glistening blue and gold of the flowers and leaves. "If you get uncomfortable, tell me."

I didn't say anything as he took one of his hands and brushed some of my hair behind my ear on my left side. Then, carefully, he took the pin out of the box and hooked it to my hair behind my ear. Putting distance between us once he was done.

"I've noticed you hide behind your hair a lot," He said, "Maybe this can help change that."

"D-Does it look good?" I asked a bit nervous, red covering my cheeks. I was... embarrassed, I didn't think I was ready to show my face just yet. I still liked my comfort from behind my hair.

"Yes," Todoroki replied, "You Mom had good taste."

"No," I said while shaking my head, "My Dad gave it to her..." He nodded.

"I don't like my Father," He said coldly.

"I never knew mine," I told him rather quickly, and he looked at me as if I was crazy. Maybe I was... I honestly didn't know... but I did know I felt very exposed with my hair pulled back like this. Carefully I stood and took the box from him, pulling the pin out of my hair and letting it fall back to cover my face. I wasn't ready to have my hair like that just yet, and I certainly didn't think I was ready to wear her pin just yet.

As I left Todoroki's room, I gave him one last thank you, and in return, he gave me a smile. A kind smile that warmed my heart. That day was just the same as before and the day after that, constantly training, constantly moving forward, and never stopping for anything less than 'Plus Ultra'. There were some nights when Iida or Momo would help me with writing and reading, other nights Present Mic asked me to come to the teacher's dorms so he could teach me more. Kirishima and Midoryia were always kind to me, smiling as if everything was fine and things were getting better. Then there was Bakugou, who let me continue to cling to him for the next eight days as we trained and went to class. I never again saw Mirio after he helped me, nor did anyone talk about him, as if he wasn't real at all.

The last day of training was coming, and then we would be taking our Hero Licensing Exam. Iida, Momo, and Present Mic were letting me have tonight to myself, and so I used this time to finish the drawing of my Mom. Her long hair and bright blue eyes smiling back at me as I added in the last details.

"Quite impressive," A voice said from my doorway, I turned back, no jitter in my body as the bird boy, Tokoyami stood there. Dark Shadow hovering at his side. Of all the people who hadn't tried to save Bakugou and me so long ago, Tokoyami and Jiro were the two I had gotten closest with. Though I still never told them about my past, it was something I could never bring myself to do.

"Thanks," I said as I finished hanging it.

"Mr. Aizawa wanted to let everyone know that tomorrow we're using the whole morning to train for the exam, and then we'll be returning here to rest."

"Ah, thanks for letting me know," I said as Dark Shadow came in and looked at the woman. I had only told a few people that this was my Mom, not because I was ashamed by her, I could never by... but Midoryia's reaction when he found out scared me. Some people would know her, and it seemed she was only just known as a Villain.

"Goodnight!" Dark Shadow squawked and brushed by my arm as he left with Tokoyami silently. Recovery Girl was right, over time I had gotten used to things and wasn't as jumpy as before, but then and there, in my room late at night, illuminated in the light of the full moon, everything I had worked hard at, shattered.

A large heavy shadow stood over me, a shapeless face with only a sinister smile staring at me. His large hand reaching down and running through my hair, then his voice, his voice which so calmly and cooly had said, "You are mine, and you will return to me. That dragon on your body will be mine. No one will come to help you." I fell out of my bed, but I couldn't scream, tears poured from my eyes and my body moved without me even thinking. But all I could do was run away. After all that training, I still wasn't strong enough... all I could do was run away.

To go down is to feel everything... that's what it's like be to outside...

The cold, nightly air was messing my hair up as I sprinted through the thick line of trees. I knew I could have gone for help with Momo or Tsu or anyone else, but right now, running from the dorms was all I could think to do. He was there... I saw him... it would have had to be him... who else would it be?

"URGH!" I coughed out as I tripped over my feet and landed hard on the ground, my trembling, sobbing body landing before another's. I tried to stand and run again, fearing that the hand snagging me arm was Tomura, but I became immovable.

"Calm down," The voice said, "It's only me, Kid." I locked eyes with the figure, the bright and clean blue of someone I trusted completely calming me down. All Might... I stopped my struggle against his thinned grip and dropped to me knees, tears stinging my eyes as he joined down on the ground. "Mind telling me what happened?"

"A-All For-He's... He's-" I was crying so hard I could barely speak, my breath raging and fighting me with every word, unable to say his name out loud. All Might understood my mangled and unintelligible sobs though, and stopped me with a raise of his hand.

 "All For One is in Tartarus," All Might told me, "A maximum-security prison, people are watching him every day and night. He's not getting out anytime soon." My breathing was hitched, my body wouldn't stop trembling no matter what he said, and I was nowhere near done crying, but I could feel my heart settling. There was a part of me that knew, that was completely sure All Might would not lie to me... I didn't see that as anything he was capable of. Still, a flame of doubt lingered in my mind.

"I-I saw-" I chocked out, sobbing harder.

"It was probably just a nightmare, sometimes fear can take a part of you that's so great, you'll see it standing before you..." We stayed silent for such a long time. Both of us holding our breathes, finally in a point when neither of us wanted to continue the conversation with the other, but history continues, and All Might will to. "Come on, I'll walk you back to the dorms..." I shakingly stood, listening closely to every little sound, a high-pitched squeak sounded from the woods beside us and launched behind him, trembling and grabbing his shirt as if I was that same scared girl from the weeks before. Everything I had been getting so used to... was starting to crumble beneath my feet. Yet, just like before... All Might was reaching a hand for me... all I had to do was take it, and I could be safe once again. Even if I had to start over.

The air warmed the more we walked back to the dorms, my shaking and breathing weren't as bad, and the tears had stopped. All Might let me cling to the back of his shirt like Bakugou does in the hallways and kept us forward.

"Tomorrow Grand Torino's coming onto the Campus. He wanted to talk to you," All Might tells me, "So, I'd like you to join the two of us during your lunch. Is that alright?"

"Y-Yes..." I whisper and hung my head. I haven't seen Grand Torino since I left the hospital... I wondered constantly if he was okay. I had so many questions to ask him, so many things to say to him, but I knew that first and foremost, I had to thank him just as I had the others.

"Ya know, my Master's name was Nana..." He said, "She was good friends with Grand Torino..." I looked up at him and he was smiling down at me from ahead. The bright and warm and kind smile that fit well with his big sunken eyes.

"W-What did she... look like?" I asked and stepped to his side, still walking behind him and holding on to his shirt. I was curious about his Master, just a bit. My Mom named me after her friend and even told me what she looked like, I could only wonder if it was the same woman.

"I'll find a picture and show you sometime," He promises with another smile. I only turn to stare down at my feet. "Young Midoryia says you're getting along with a lot of the other students, not just those from Kamino. I'm glad to see the improvements!" I could hear the smile in his voice, but still... I couldn't find his kind of light in me yet. "Mr. Powerloader said you wanted to share your hero name with me before making it your real one. What were you thinking?"

"One For All..." I said quietly, keeping my eyes off him. I could feel his shock growing as we kept our pace. "I hate Akuto, but he was who I was with my whole life... I'm not sure what else to pick..."

"Well," He thought, coughing to cover up his nervousness, "That's something to think about. I wouldn't set anything in stone just yet... but I do understand where you're going with this." We stayed silent, and in that dark and hushed moment, a scary, terrifying thought jumped into my head, one I hated and feared and didn't want to say... but I did. I said it, to All Might, and All Might alone.

"I want to go back..." I told him, my voice louder than I meant it to be. This made him stop completely. "Just to the small room..." I told him, spilling the truth before I could catch it. "Despite everything I've gone through, that room was where I felt safest for ten years... I miss its comfort." He pulled me into his arms and smiled, holding me there for a long moment.

"It's okay to miss something that made you feel safe..." He tells me, and the thought walks away from my head. The feeling of safety is a stranger to me, but I do know that right now I feel safe...

With Bakugou, I feel safest though.